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Initech

(100,104 posts)
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 03:15 PM Jan 2019

'We're getting soft': Kentucky governor says America is weak for closing schools

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has criticized schools for closing as a deadly arctic deep freeze wreaks havoc on tens of millions across the United States as they are hit with record-breaking low temperatures.

Hundreds of public schools and several large universities from North Dakota to Pennsylvania canceled classes on Tuesday and Wednesday due to the dangerous temperatures.

Bevin, in an interview with NewsRadio 840 WHAS , said America was weak because of it.

'Now we cancel school for cold?' he told host Terry Meiners on Tuesday.

'It's deep freeze,' the host replied. 'This is serious business.'

Bevin hit back: 'Come on, now. I mean, there's no ice going with it, or any snow.

'I mean, what happens to America? We're getting soft.'

The governor added that he did 'appreciate that it's better to err on the side of being safe' and admitted that his comments were 'slightly facetious'.

He then doubled down, saying: 'It does concern me a little bit that in America, on this and many other fronts, that we're sending messages to our young people that if life is hard you can curl up in the fetal position somewhere in a warm place and just wait until it stops being hard... that just isn't reality.'
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/were-getting-soft-kentucky-governor-says-america-is-weak-for-closing-schools-as-a-deadly-arctic-deep-freeze-wreaks-havoc-with-record-breaking-low-temperatures/ar-BBSXzv2?li=BBnb7Kz


Wow, how very Christian of him!
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redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
1. Spoken by a guy who rides in a car everywhere he goes.
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 03:23 PM
Jan 2019

He has a nice warm house, warm food, what a moron, just like the moron in chief.

Initech

(100,104 posts)
8. He could have just said "let them eat cake" and it would have been much easier.
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 04:22 PM
Jan 2019

What a fucking asshole!

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
3. "Reality" means
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 03:28 PM
Jan 2019

Little kids waiting outside in sub-zero temps for school buses that are delayed or never arrive, and becoming frost bitten within 5 minutes.

Teachers who can’t start their cars to get to school, leaving classrooms of kids abandoned.

Urban kids whose public transportation options may involve long delays, where they are left stranded for prolonged times outside on El platforms or at bus stops with 50 below wind chills.

Possibilities of broken boilers or frozen pipes creating crises for students and teachers.

Huge financial liabilities for schools.

We’re not talking “it’s cold outside, I don’t wanna go out.” We’re talking potentially life-threatening danger.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,430 posts)
5. Bevin reveals himself -- entitled, disconnected from average citizens
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 03:38 PM
Jan 2019

Bevin doesn't care about anything except himself and party power. He'd happily allow your children to suffer frostbite or loss of limbs if it gained him a few votes.

https://www.ballotpedia.org/Kentucky_gubernatorial_and_lieutenant_gubernatorial_election,_2019

standingtall

(2,787 posts)
9. Says the guy that went to private school and thought he had it rough because he didn't
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 04:53 PM
Jan 2019

have central air growing up in the 70's.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
15. I'm sorry, I know there are a lot of good KY Democrats, but WTF is wrong with
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 11:20 PM
Jan 2019

that state that they keep electing some of the cruelest, worst politicians in the nation? There are just too many hateful people in that state who support the worst of the worst.

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